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Steven Wallace to Race the Daytona 500 and Sam Hornish out at Penske?
Topic Started: Jan 15 2011, 05:08 PM (352 Views)
Jenny
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Steve Wallace In The Daytona 500? It's Happening, Report Says
by Jeff Gluck • Jan 15, 2011 5:04 PM EST

Buried at the end of a FoxSports.com report regarding Sam Hornish Jr.'s future was this eye-opening nugget: Steve Wallace is planning to make his Sprint Cup debut at the upcoming Daytona 500.

Seriously? Yes, apparently so.

According to FoxSports.com's Lee Spencer, Wallace will be using the points that formerly belonged to Hornish's now-defunct No. 77 team:

Penske also verified that the No. 77 points will be used by Stephen Wallace, who is attempting to make his Cup debut at Daytona. Wallace, 23, currently drives the No. 66 Toyota for his father at Rusty Wallace Racing.

While Wallace has admittedly improved from his early days as a 200 mph wrecking ball, he still failed to finish on the lead lap in 13 of the 35 Nationwide Series races last season. Yet on Feb. 20, he'll be in the Daytona 500.

This is happening, folks! Hornish's team finished the season in the top 35, so Wallace won't have to qualify his way into the field.

Though this news may be fodder for Wallace's skeptics, at least one of his supporters believes this could be the first step toward a fantastic Cup career: His father, future Hall-of-Famer Rusty Wallace, told us last year that he thinks Steve will be a Cup champ within five years.


Just another reason to watch the Daytona 500, we suppose.

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Jenny
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Sam Hornish News:

•No Daytona 500 or Nationwide races for Hornish: Sam Hornish Jr. will not be in anything Penske-owned in Daytona. He is basically done. Penske Racing downsized not only Hornish's NASCAR Sprint Cup organization, but also its Nationwide Series crew. [Penske] cannibalized the #77 crew of Hornish and what was left of the #12 Nationwide crew to make up the best for one with Brad Keselowksi's organization, whatever they were lacking in Nationwide, but also to beef up what is now the #2 car for Keselowski for the Cup season. (Fox Sports)
BUT Brad Keselowski said on his twitter that Hornish would be his Nationwide Series teammate in 2011, driving the #12.(1-15-2011)

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Not sad to see Hornish go but he gets replaced by someone worst!

I cant win can I?

Rusty could make it as a comedian. Champ within 5 years.

Not sure if that was a joke, sarcasm or if he really meant it.

Only hope is the Cup guys are aware of Steve and adknowledge his very lack of skills and just let him draft his way to the back.
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Sam Hornish Jr. will compete in at least 10 NASCAR Nationwide races beginning with the DRIVEFORCOPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway, team owner Roger Penske confirmed by email on Saturday. Chad Walters will serve as Hornish's crew chief in 2011. Hornish, 31, competed in the #77 Dodge for Penske Racing for the past three seasons. The former IndyCar Series champion scored just two top-fives during his Sprint Cup experience, earning both in 2009 when he finished a career-high 28th in the point standings. While Penske had hoped to campaign three Cup teams and two full-time Nationwide efforts in 2011 the recent economic climate and a lack of sponsorship forced the company to scale back.(Fox Sports)(1-15-2011)

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Hate you all for your mocking of your future Cup champion.
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:down: Steven Wallace is gonna be a one man wrecking crew in the 500
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Im sure when I watch the highlights from the 500 afterward Steven wont let me down
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Not when he's doing his interview from victory lane.
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Like I said
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UPDATE 2 - Steve Wallace to make Cup debut: Rusty Wallace Racing (RWR) announced that 23 year-old Steve Wallace will make his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut in February's 53rd annual running of NASCAR's most prestigious event, the Daytona 500. Wallace will pilot the #77 Toyota Camry for RWR at Daytona, with backing from longtime sponsor 5-Hour Energy and new partner Aspen Dental. When Steve Wallace and the 5-Hour Energy Camry take the green flag on February 20th at NASCAR's most historic venue, the well-pedigreed racer will write his own chapter in NASCAR history. His Sprint Cup debut will make the Wallace family the first ever to have produced four Daytona 500 competitors, breaking a longtime tie with the Petty, Allison, Earnhardt and Bodine families. When Wallace starts the 2011 event, a member of his family will have competed in 27 of the last 30 Daytona 500s.
The third-generation driver will have familiar leadership for his first run in The Great American Race, as RWR General Manager, Larry Carter, will serve as crew chief for the #77 5-Hour Energy Toyota. A veteran Sprint Cup crew chief, Carter led Rusty Wallace to a top-ten in the elder Wallace's final Daytona 500 in 2005, as well as a fourth-place finish in the July 2005 event at Daytona.
Providing additional comfort to the younger Wallace in his Cup Series debut is a guaranteed place among the 43-car starting field, enabled through an agreement between RWR and Penske Racing.
Said Steve Wallace, "Starting my first Daytona 500 is definitely going to be the most exciting day of my career-make that my life-so far. It's something that every kid wanting to be a racer-including me-dreams of doing one day. It's the some of the best drivers in the world competing in the biggest race in the world. I really have to thank 5-Hour Energy and Aspen Dental for making this possible. As far as the race, my goals are simple: to stay out of trouble, earn all the respect I can from the other guys and make sure the 5-Hour Energy Toyota is there at the end of the race. The way restrictor plate racing goes, if we can do that, there's no telling what can happen."
Team owner Rusty Wallace shares his son's enthusiasm for the event. "This is a big event for all of us-for Steve, our team, our family and our sponsors," Wallace stated, "When you're a young driver coming up, you dream about racing in the Daytona 500 and now Steve's going to get the opportunity to do it. He's grown by leaps and bounds as a driver in the Nationwide Series over the last few years and we think he's ready for this opportunity. We've been looking at this race as an opportunity for a while, because I really believe that the new pavement at Daytona is going to be a great equalizer among the teams. The cars will have a ton of grip and it's going to make handling a much smaller part of the equation.(Rusty Wallace Racing)(1-19-2011)


#77 RWR Camry :mark:
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toyota? when did that happen?
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Rusty joined up with JGR last season I believe after RCR was down the year before.
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He's grown by leaps and bounds as a driver? :blink:
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He did between year 1 and 2, he seemed like he plateaued after that though. :lol:
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